A man was sentenced Feb. 14 to life in prison for fatally shooting a discount store clerk during a robbery, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

Eric William Atkinson, 35, was sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the special circumstance murder of Martha Sanchez, 39. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Perry imposed an additional 38 years for a count of witness intimidation as well as allegations of gun use and a prior conviction of attempted robbery.

About 9 p.m., on Sept. 17, 2013, Atkinson entered Happy Bargain store in South Los Angeles, robbed between $200 and $300, and shot Sanchez multiple times, according to authorities. A customer found Sanchez 10 minutes later, but the clerk was pronounced dead at the hospital within the hour, according to coroner’s records.

A Long Beach woman pleaded no contest Feb. 14 to stabbing her boyfriend nearly two years ago, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

In court, Yvonne Marie Pina, 34, pleaded to one count of voluntary manslaughter for killing her boyfriend, Aaron Paolo Flores, 21. She also admitted to the allegation that she used a knife to commit the crime.

Prosecutors said the couple had been fighting for several days prior to March 1, 2016, when Pina fatally stabbed Flores.

On the day of the killing, Flores tried to leave in Pina’s car after a fight, but he was unable to drive away, prosecutors said. Flores then went to a neighbor’s house to use the phone.

Meanwhile, Pina grabbed a knife from her home and approached Flores, saying “You want to hit me,” according to prosecutors. She then stabbed Flores once ...

A Pomona man was charged Feb. 14 with murder in the killing of a 40-year-old man, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

Prosecutors charged Jonathan Scott Marsh, 54, in the slaying of Matthew Todd Musick outside a grocery store last month. Marsh is being held on bail set at $2.5 million.

On Jan. 25, Pomona police found Musick stabbed to death in the parking lot of a Food For Less, according to Sgt. Brian Hagerty. In the weeks since the killing, police received several tips and eye-witness accounts which led to Marsh’s arrest on Feb. 9, Hagerty said.

Marsh is scheduled to return to court March 21 for an arraignment hearing. If convicted as charged, he could face up to 26 years to life in state prison.

Three men were convicted in late January of murder in the death of a 21-year-old college student in 2013, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

Jonathan Joseph Gonzales, 30, Roque Solis, 32, and Anthony Aaron Gabriel, 27, were each convicted Jan. 30 of murder, attempted murder and four counts of assault with a firearm in the slaying of Gabriel Soto, prosecutors said in a news release.

Gun and gang allegations were found true, and Gonzales was also found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The three defendants, who are all Latino, each face two consecutive sentences of life in prison when they are set to be sentenced March 26.

Soto, a student at Lincoln University in Missouri, was in East Los Angeles visiting with high school friends at a garage party when a man began shooting at them, detectives previously told ...